Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, Actually it has everything to do with decline of the necessity of using newspapers as a news source for the vast majority of the citizens of the USA, and the resultant collapse of the business model. It has not happened here yet, but it is only a matter of time. Newspapers here are getting saved by low internet/smartphone penetration for the time being. Similar to the profession of a photojournalist, if you ask me.... Multiple new business models will be invented and sprout up, the majority won't work very well and die, but one thing is certain - those business/individuals who cannot adapt to the new paradigms are dead meat. No point in crying for days gone by, look ahead always. And keep adapting. Nothing else works nowadays, anyway. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:52 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2013, at 10:10 AM, George Lottermoser wrote: > > > In my opinion it's the people who have screwed the creators out of those > fees, > > rather than the creators working to get compensated for use of their > work, > > who should be looked down upon. > > P.S. > Newspapers firing their photographic staff > has nothing to do with photographers selling "rights to use their > photographs." > It has everything to do with the overall devaluation of photographers and > photographs. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >